Cindy, it was mentioned that the Wahine are undefeated in matches played Monday-Saturday. Their only 2 losses came on Sunday. I am hoping they play in the Cal. or Texas regional. The Wahine have a score to settle with Stanford, and the Texas Regional has always been good to the Wahine.

So how did the UH’s non-conference opponents do in their respective conference? Here’s the wrap (RPI as of Nov 19):

Albany (14-15) of the America East Conference [AEC] … RPI = 153 … Finished on top of the conference during regular-season play, but — playing for the NCAA berth — was swept by Binghampton (13-17) in the AEC Championship final (Nov. 17) … Great Danes will NOT likely receive an at-large

Baylor (20-11) of the 9-team Big 12 … RPI = 51 … Finished 6th in the league (with 1 non-conference match to play Sat against SMU) …. Bears is a ‘bubble’ team and will not likely receive an at-large

California (15-15) of the Pac-12 …. RPI = 39 … Tied with Arizona St (20-13) for 6th in league … Golden Bears can expect an at-large berth with its .500 overall record …. See my note at bottom of this list

Idaho (17-14) of the Western Athletic Conference [WAC] … RPI = 126 … Idaho lost to NMSU in the WAC Championship tournament final and with that lost went the NCAA automatic berth … Vandals will NOT likely receive an at-large

San Diego State (23-7) of the Mountain West Conference [MWC] … RPI = 40 … SDSU shares the MWC crown with Colorado State (21-7), but the league tie-breaker gives the Rams the automatic berth … Aztecs can expect an at-large

San Francisco (16-13) of the 9-team West Coast Conference [WCC] … RPI = 59 … Finished 7th in a strong league (6 WCC teams are ranked in top 50 in RPI) … Dons will NOT likely receive an at-large

St. Mary’s (17-10) of the West Coast Conference [WCC] … RPI = 31 … Ended 3rd in a strong conference, behind tied-for-1st BYU (automatic) and San Diego (at-large) … Gaels is another ‘bubble’ team but can expect an at-large in spite of only a 17-win season

Stanford (27-3) of the Pac-12 … RPI = 1 … Winner of league title outright … Automatic berth and should be Seed 1 (only 16 teams are seeded in the NCAA tournament)

RPI = as of Nov. 19
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Re: California … On June 25, 2010 (2 years ago), the NCAA announced that California would be one of the 4 regional hosts for 2012. This is the first time the Golden Bears had been chosen as an NCAA regional championship host. Among the reasons given for the choice, the NCAA announced that Cal is just one of 4 teams (three-time defending champion Penn State, Texas and Nebraska are the others) to have advanced as far as the NCAA regional championship match in each of the last three seasons (2007 ~ 2009) and has been to a school-record eight consecutive NCAA tournaments under head coach Rich Feller.

In selecting the regional hosts, the NCAA committee looks at which teams in 2 or 3 years has the potential to advance to a regional championship match, as local media coverage will more than likely evaporate if the local host team fails to materialize in the regional.

In short, which team will have the All-American(s) to take that team to the regionals is not easy to predict, but finding the strongest candidate is the committee’s job! Thus, if you have a sophomore who’s a first-team All-American, the committee must come to a decision on whether it thinks that All-American will be able to take her team deep into the tournament.

California — with the minimum .500 overall record — will receive an at-large berth. It will not host a subregional, but is 1 of the 4 predetermined regional hosts. In general, the current NCAA committee will serve up the 4 regional hosts with as easy a path to the regional as financially possible. But with both California and Purdue not likely to be awarded with a subregional, either or both could be a Round 1-2 embarrassment of bitches for the NCAA. The NCAA — and all committee members represent the NCAA, no matter that they had nothing to do with selecting the predetermined regional hosts — does not like to lose face.

I don’t see why not if its RPI is 16 or higher. The NCAA selection committee this year, a change, can take into consideration PABLO AVCA rankings; if it does, Hawaii will easily make the top 16 and hosting duties.

PeRfEcT! I called it right for all 9 non-conference opponents that the UH faced this season. 5 made it to the Big Dance, 4 did not.

1. Albany = NO at large
2. Baylor = NO at large
3. California = YES at large
4. Idaho = NO at large
5. SDSU = YES at large
6. San Francisco = NO at large
7. St. Mary’s = YES at large
8. Stanford = automatic
9. UCLA = YES at large

uhfan, Rooks committed to Georgia. The sand team is updated to 19 players, from the indoor team are Olevao, Vorster, Spieler, Mendoza, Longo, Long, Kastl and Croson.
dedicatedfan, Nikki last night was the curly redhead with the knitted cap, sitting with Rooks and Agost.

Note 1: As some of you will remember, I got lucky and called all 16 subregional hosts correctly last year. I will be happy if I nailed 14 of the 16 seeds this year. Note 2: Numbers before a team is its overall won-loss record; numbers after a team is its NCAA RPI ranking (as of Nov 19) followed by its AVCA Top 25 ranking (as of Nov 19). Note 3: NR = not ranked.

WEST COAST*
2011 = 1
2012 = 1? = 26-3 BYU [13,16] … BYU lost its last conference match of the season to SDSU to tie SDSU for the league championship, but the Cougars got the automatic berth due to league tiebreaker rules … Beat Utah Valley (RPI 140) in the last match of its season.

* There are 17 teams listed above. It’s possible both A-10′s Dayton and WCC’s BYU could be among the 16 subregionals, if the NCAA Committee decides to award only one SEC team a subregional. Other than that, it’s one or the other that will host. My heart likes Dayton but my head says BYU. I will go with my heart any day! Lol.

No problem. Obviously you are correct in saying it was not BYU who lost to SDSU but USD who lost to SDSU Aztecs in the next to last match of the season for the Toreros — even though both play in different conferences.

Are redshirt freshman eligible for FOY awards? If so I think Vorster has a shot. Hartong as POY is a no brainer and I’d probably say Brian as COY with what he’s had to deal with this season and still doing pretty good in conference.

Section 29.2 of the Big West Code Book covers all awards and it says nothing about redshirt freshman.

All-Freshman Team Selections

20.2.7 The following process shall be used in selecting the All-Freshman team:
1. The nomination process and voting deadline shall be the same as for the All-Conference Team.
2. The seven players receiving the most votes shall be named to the All-freshman team and each shall be awarded a certificate from the Conference.
3. The player receiving the highest point total in the balloting shall be named Freshman of the Year in addition to being placed on the All-Freshman team. If a different freshman is selected to the All-Conference first team ahead of the player receiving the highest point total in the balloting for Freshman of the Year, the other player shall be named Freshman of the Year.

I believe that in the WAC redshirt freshman were not eligible for FOY.

lol nobody is in their own regional.
cal, purdue, nebraska and texas are placed in different regionals.
the seedings are very off. Texas just lost to iowa state so they’re seed is gonna be a little affected.

The Omaha regional will be stacked with Oregon, Hawaii, Nebraska, and Washington in the 16 team bracket. All four are ranked in the AVCA top ten. However, this does not consider RPI. I would guess Hawaii fell down in the latest one made available to the selection committee. Some selections hard to believe. Kentucky seeded? Nebraska number 4 after all its recent losses? Does the WCC deserve 6 seeds?

Hawaii shouldn’t have dropped in the RPI but you’ll notice tht there won’t be one posted tomorrow. they said last week’s was it.
to quote Dave Shoji: Think they had the field selected last week.
As for Kentucky, oh please. the AVCA headquarters is in Lexington. only reason.